Uxc3 Airmail Postal Card First Day Cancels

I just came across three dozen of these postal cards in a box of first day covers and was wondering if anyone can give me a current catalog value for the item.



According to my old 2002 Scott Specialized it suggests that this example is worth $15 which is many times the normal $1 or $1.50 catalog listing typical for most of the first day cancels for that period. Is there any reason for this or could it have been a misprint? It seems that the number of these first day cancelled postal cards were plentiful so I can't quite understand the spike in value.

Obviously, as an uncacheted postal card, it's probably only worth a fraction of the value of a cacheted example, but even still it seems there is quite a spread in value as compared to other postal cards from that period.

Scott 2008 shows $1.50

Thanks. (Must have been a typo in the 2002 Scott Specialized catalog.)

There are two varieties of this card (thinned dividing line at top, and at bottom) which have slightly higher FDC values in the 2010 U.S. Postal Card Catalog (www.UPSS.org). Your scan is not quite sufficient to tell, but it looks like it may be thinned at top. Or maybe just an artifact of the scan.

Try posting a high res scan of the top 1 inch of the dividing line.

I missed that. It is definitely thinned at top.

As I said at the beginning of this thread, I have about 3 dozen of these postcards. I provide close ups of two examples of the top portion of the cards below.

This first one is the card originally scanned. I believe it is not the thinnned variety:



Here's a second example, which I believe is the thinned variety:



I didn't even know that this variety existed, as it is not listed in Scott. The printed airmail eagle also looks to be slightly darker in color in the "thinned" variety.

Any significant difference in value between the two?

The UPSS catalog number for the dividing line thinned at top is SA3c1. $6 cat val for FDC.

Wt1,

I think you have the images reversed relative your words.

Thanks. I just realized that the "dividing line" issue you were looking at to determine varieties is the vertical line. I was initially thinking it was the width of the top margin of the airmail red/blue colors which is shorter on example 2 than 1. My mistake.